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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. D. DONOVAN & J. GEISBNHEIMBR.

SWITCH FOR CABLE RAILWAYS.

No. 416,449. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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SWITCH FOR CABLE RAILWAYS.

ATTOHNEYJ' No. 416,449. Patented Dec. 8, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL DONOVAN AND JOSEPH GEISENHEIMER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

SWITCH FOR CABLE RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,449, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed October 3, 1889. Serial No. 325,908. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL DONOVAN .and JOSEPH GEISEN' EIMER, of the city,

v specification.

This invention relates to improvements in switches for cable railways; and the object of our invention is to provide a cable-railway switch which can be operated from the car as the same arrives at the switch.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a planviewof our improved cable-railway switch. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same and-a side View of part of the car and switch operating mechanism on the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of part of the car and a vertical transverse section of the conduit. Fig. 4 is a horizontal detail sectional view of the top of the end part of the car onthe line 4 4:, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A A are the cable-grip slots, and B B are the rails. In the line of one of the rails the switch-tongue O is pivoted to swing laterally on'the surface.

D is the guard-rail adjacent to the tongue.

From the switch-tongue O a rod or arm E projects through a transverse slot F in the top of the cable-conduit G, and a short distance from said slot F in the direction from which the trains approach the switch two plates H H are hung on the under side of the top of the conduit at the opposite sides of the slot A. The lower or swinging end of the plate H is connected by a wire rope or chain J with the arm or rod E of the switch tongue, said wire rope or: chain passing through a pulley L on the bottom of the conduit, then diagonally across said conduit and around another pulley M on the bottom of the conduit, and upward and around a pulley N at the top of the conduit. The bottom or swinging end of the plate H is connected with a wire rope or chain 0, which passes around a pulley P on the bottom of the conduit, upward and around a pulley Q on the under side of the top of the conduit, and around a pulley R, also on the under side of the top of the conduit, which rope or chain 0 is also connected with the arm or rod E of the switchtongue C.

At the front end part of the car a a vertical shaft 1) is mounted,which projects through the slot A, and is provided at its lower end with a laterally-projecting arm (1,011 which an anti-friction sleeve f is mounted. The shaft 1) is provided at its upper end with an arm g, which projects in the same direction as the arm d, and is provided in its free end with an aperture h, containing a locking-pin 7a, which can be passed into apertures min the top plate 02. at the front of the car-plat form, thus permitting of locking the arm g, and with it the bottom arm d, in the position when projecting either to the right or to the left or straight ahead. The shaft 19 is provided at its upper end with a suitable handle lever 0.

The operation is as follows: If the train runs in the direction of the arrow at, Fig. 1, and is to be switched off to the right, the shaft 1) is turned to the right, so that the bottom arm cl strikes against the swinging plate 11 and presses the same in the direction of the arrow y, whereby the rope or chain 0, connected with said plate This moved in the direction of the arrow to and pulls the tongue 0 to the left. If the following car wishes to I go in the same directionthat is, to rightthe shaft b is so adjusted that its arms g and (1 project straight forward or backward, and so that the lower arm (Z cannot act on either swinging plate II or II. If the following car is to go straight ahead and not be switched off to the right, the shaft b is so turned that its arms 9 and (1 project toward the left. The arm d will then strike against the swinging plate 11' and draw the wire rope or chain J, connected with said swinging plate in the direction of the arrow -v, whereby the tongue 0 is swung to the right-that is, into the position shown in Fig. 1. The person having charge of the car can thus easily set his switch so as to guide the car to either side or straight ahead, as may be desired.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters latent .l. The combination, with a cable-conduit, of plates hinged, in the same to hang vertically, and a snitch-tongue connected with said plates, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a cable-conduit and a switch-tongueabove thesanie, of plates hung in the conduit, chains or cables connecting the snitch-tongue with said plates, and guide-pulleys over which the wire ropes or chains pass, substantially as set forth.

The combination, with a cable-conduit and a switch-tongue above the same, of plates pivoted at each side of the cable-grip slot to hang verticall v,wire ropes or chains connecting said plates with the switch-tongue, and guide-pulleys for said wire ropes or chains, substantially as set forth.

r. The combination, with a cable-conduit and a switeh-tongne above the same, of a hinged plate hung in the cable-conduit at each side of the cable-grip slot, chains or wire ropes connecting said plates with the cable switch-tongue, a bar projecting from the car through the slot in the top of the conduit, and an arm on said bar adapted to strike against the hinged plates in the conduit, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL DONOVAN. J OS. GEISENIIEIMER.

\Vitnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, W. REIMHERR. 

